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Caoimhe Stack, Ariel James, and Duane Watson win 2018 Clifford T. Morgan Best Article Award!
9/13/2018 — aoimhe, Ariel, and Duane are the recipients of the 2018 Clifford T. Morgan Best Article award for the most outstanding paper published this year in Memory & Cognition, a journal of the Psychonomic Society. Caoimhe will be recognized at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society for this honor and will receive a $1,000 award. The award-winning article was selected by the Editor of the journal and is entitled "A failure to replicate rapid syntactic adaptation in comprehension." The article is available at this link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758%2Fs13421-018-0808-6 and more information about the award can be obtained here: https://www.psychonomic.org/page/clifford_t_morgan. Congratulations Caoimhe, Ariel, and Duane!
Congratulations Daryl, Jurnell and René !
8/24/2018 — Daryl Fougnie, Jurnell Cockhren and René Marois win the 2018 Clifford T. Morgan Best Article Award for the article entitled "A common source of attention for auditory and visual tracking" published in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics in the past year. This is the second best 'journal article' award to Fougnie for his Ph.D. work in Marois' lab. The Psychonomic Society Clifford T. Morgan Best Article Award honors individuals for the best paper published in each Psychonomic Society journal in the last year. Articles are chosen by each of the Society's journals during the summer and the selected first authors of those papers will be honored at the Annual Meeting and receive a monetary award. One recipient from each journal is chosen to receive a $1,000 award.
Dykens wins the 2018 Rare Impact Award from the National Organization for Rare Disorders!
5/22/2018 — Professor Elisabeth Dykens has been selected to receive the 2018 Rare Impact Award from the National Organization for Rare Disorders. Her research focuses on the behavioral studies of Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) and Williams Syndrome and was the first researcher to describe cognitive profiles and compulsivity in PWS patients. More information about this award is available here, https://rarediseases.org/elisabeth-dykens-ph-d-2018-rare-impact-award-honoree/. Congratulations Elisabeth!
Congratulations Hao Wu!
4/11/2018 — Hao Wu, an incoming member of the Quantitative Methods (QM) Program within the Department of Psychology and Human Development, was just honored with election into the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP). SMEP is a distinguished group of quantitative psychologists limited to 65 members worldwide (https://www.smep.org/). SMEP is dedicated to the advancement of multivariate quantitative methods and their application to substantive problems in psychology and related fields. Congratulations Hao on this much deserved achievement!
Smokies Cognition and Neuroscience Symposium [SCANS]
4/02/2018 — The 2018 Smokies Cognition and Neuroscience Symposium [SCANS] sponsored by Duke, Emory, Georgia Tech, UNC, and Vanderbilt will be held September 14-15 at the Renaissance Asheville Hotel, in Asheville, NC.
Participating Vanderbilt Psychology & Psychology & Human Development faculty includes James Booth, Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Isabel Gauthier, Kari Hoffman, Gordon Logan, Tom Palmeri, Sean Polyn, Frank Tong, Thilo Womelsdorf, Geoff Woodman, & David Zald.
https://www.vanderbilt.edu/psychological_sciences/news/Documents/SCANS_flyer.pdf
Congratulations Noah Robinson!
3/19/2018 — Clinical psychology graduate student Noah Robinson's work is featured in the Tennessean! https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/03/18/why-vanderbilt-researcher-using-virtual-reality-fight-opioids/327886002/
Noah has also been selected as a recipient of the 2018 NIDA Young Investigator Travel Award. He has been invited to attend the 49th ASAM Annual Conference in San Diego in April 2018. The travel award will include a $1,200 monetary award to be used to defray expenses incurred in attending the conference, complimentary registration, as well as a ticket to the ASAM Awards Luncheon. The award also includes a one year complimentary ASAM membership.
Benbow and Lubinski win 2018 ISIR Lifetime Achievement Awards
2/17/2018 — Professors Camilla P. Benbow and David Lubinski have been selected to receive The International Society for Intelligence Research’s 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Intelligence. Benbow and Lubinski co-direct the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development. The 50-year longitudinal study of 5,000 highly talented individuals is the world’s foremost long-term examination of intellectually gifted individuals. Benbow is the Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of Education and Human Development. Lubinski is professor of psychology and human development and an investigator at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. Both have been honored with Mensa Education and Research Foundation Lifetime Achievement Awards and similar awards from the National Association for Gifted Children. Benbow and Lubinski will receive the ISIR Lifetime Achievement Award at the organization’s annual conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, in July. At the 2019 ISIR annual conference in Minneapolis, they are to share their latest round of results from their study and deliver the keynote address.